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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE GREAT CIRCUS PARADE What you need to know from a century and a half of lore
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Hitch up the wagons. Strike up the sousaphones. And, ladies and
gentlemen, please hold onto your horses because the elephants are
coming!
The Great Circus Parade is ready to roll through downtown
Milwaukee at 2 p.m. next Sunday, with sounds and sites more than 150
years in the making.
The parade itself is a throwback to an America gone by.
Before radio and TV, promoters had to find ways to pump up
interest in the circus before it came to town. During the mid- and
late-1800s, the ...
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CIRCUS PARADE
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; CIRCUS PARADE Friday, December 12, 2003 Get priorities straight On the Dec. 9 front page was the headline "GOP senators push to save Circus Parade," and then on the front page of the Metro section in smaller print was the headline "MPS eyes cutting costs, buses, choices." As a newcomer to the state
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Great Circus Parade to get boost from independent Borgnine film
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Since it began, Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade has been all Wisconsin. But now it's gone Hollywood, too. The parade will benefit from a tie-in with a new direct-to-video release, "The Last Great Ride," starring Ernest Borgnine, Eileen Brennan and Jason Hervey. "The Last Great Ride" was filmed in
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Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade a classic tradition
Chicago Sun-Times
; MILWAUKEE America's turn-of-the-century circus parade spectacle will live again next Sunday when the city's mammoth Great Circus Parade marches and rolls downtown from 2 to 4 p.m. The parade climaxes a week of pre-parade events and adds the title "Circus Capital of the World" to Milwaukee's
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Plans to revive Circus Parade march forward
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... would be held, and the 30th time it would be held in Milwaukee. Copyright 2008, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved. (Note: This notice does not apply to those news items already copyrighted and received through wire services or other media.)
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CIRCUS PARADE'S FUTURE THREATENED BY LACK OF FUNDING.(FRONT)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; Byline: Bill Novak The Capital Times The Great Circus Parade might be forced to fold its tent if backers aren't found by the end of 2003 to support it, according to the chief executive officer of the Circus World Museum in Baraboo. Larry Fisher told The Capital Times Monday that we are rapidly
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